Our Lady of Mercy

Dear Parents and Carers

Congratulations to all our One Big Voice choir participants on their outstanding performance last week. This massed choir event is an amazing spectacle and we thank our Choir teacher, Ms Agnello for all her efforts in preparing the children so well.

Today selected students participated in the Spring Sports Carnival. Again thank you to our Physical Education teacher, Mr King for training our students to participate successfully in a variety of sports' as well as setting a high expectation for excellent sportsmanship behaviours.

Both of these events showcased our students talents and made us all proud of their efforts.

As we head towards the final three weeks of term, children naturally start to feel tired. We ask parents to please support your children in getting to bed early so that they are ready to learn each day and participate successfully in the many events still coming up on our calendar.

Finally we wish all Fathers and people who have taken on this role in the lives of our students, a very happy Father's Day on Sunday. You play an invaluable role in the life of your child and we trust that you are well and truly celebrated and that you have a deep sense of the appreciation your loved ones have for you.

God bless you all.

Ondine Komnick

Principal

Friday 30 August

• P&F Father's Day Stall

Thursday 5 September

• Kindy 2025 Play Date

Monday 9 September

• Pupil Free Day

Wednesday 11 September

• Edu-dance Concert
• Open classrooms - come and visit after Edu-Dance - 2.50 pm - 4 pm

Thursday 12 September

• Open classrooms - come and visit in the morning 8 am - 8.30 am

Thursday 12 - Friday 13 September

• Year 5 Camp

Wednesday 18 September

• Athletics Carnival and P&F sausage sizzle (pre-orders only)

Our P&F have a wonderful range of gifts for the children to purchase for Father's Day. Items range from $1 to $10.

Our amazing P&F are holding two fundraisers and require parent volunteers to help with the Father's Day stall and the Athletics Carnival sausage sizzle. Please let the front office know of you can help admin@olom.wa.edu.au

Our wonderful P&F are running a fundraising sausage sizzle at the Athletics Carnival. Only pre-orders can be accepted - your child can pay $3 to their teachers before the carnival.

A rich learning experience for our Year 3 to 6 Auslan learners, with a visit from deaf author Angela Linfitt and Miss B the Hearing Dog. Angela read her book ‘Miss B the Hearing Dog’ to the students, discussed how Miss B supports her and about her deafness. It was wonderful to see the students use their receptive and expressive Auslan skills.

All students need to be enrolled for a secondary school. Mercy College invites OLOM families to visit and tour the school on Tuesday, 10 September to see all that is on offer.

Register by scanning the QR code below, or email mercyenrolments@cewa.edu.au or phone 9247 9223.

Get your Colour on, Our Lady of Mercy is hosting a Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun!

Our Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun will be on Friday 11th October from 1:45pm to 2:50pm.

Not only are we hosting an awesome Colour Explosion Run 4 Fun, Students can order up to a total of 5 prizes based on their donations received. They can even mix and match! Don’t want the prizes, donate your donations to one of the five causes – Carbon Neutral (tree planting), Great Barrier Reef Foundation (coral planting or turtle protection), The Smith Family (reading support) or OzHarvest (providing meals).

Students have received a sponsorship book with instructions on setting up their cybersafe, online fundraising profile at www.australianfundraising.com.au. This is an entirely online fundraiser; all cash donations must be converted to online donations to redeem your prizes.

Extra Incentives to Fundraise!

• Online Golden Coins – complete fun online tasks to redeem an extra $75 towards your prize credit.
• Monty the Monstar’s Bonus Prizes – achieve milestones to unlock Monty’s bonus prizes.
• $10,000 Budget Booster Bonanza Spending Spree for one organisation’s highest fundraising student
• Our school will win an extra $5,000 if we have the highest average fundraised amount per student in 2024.
• A Play Station 5 Gaming Bundle – see your child’s sponsorship booklet for more!

For more information, please contact Kristen at olompfcommitee@gmail.com.

Happy fundraising!

Please mention to your friends that we are now enrolling for Kindy 2025 and other years. You can win a free new school shirt if anyone you know (that is new to the school) applies for enrolment.

Entertainment is the easy-to-use App packed with incredible savings of up to 50% off and 2-for-1 offers, so you can save on takeaway, dining, shopping, groceries, gift cards, activities and more! And what’s even better, 20% of every membership purchased goes to support Our Lady of Mercy Primary School!

Kids Academy runs before and after school care here at OLOM. Pop into see them if you are interested in using this service to help look after your child before or after school.

Term 1: Wednesday 31 January - Thursday 28 March 2024

Term 2: Tuesday 16 April - Friday 28 June 2024

Term 3: Monday 15 July - Friday 20 September 2024

Term 4: Monday 7 October - Friday 6 December 2024

Term 1: Monday 4 March (Labour Day Holiday), Friday 29 March (Good Friday Holiday)

Term 2: Monday 15 April (Pupil Free Day), Thursday 25 April (ANZAC Day Holiday), Friday 26 April (Pupil Free Day), Friday 31 May (Pupil Free Day), Monday 3 June (WA Day Holiday)

Term 3: Monday 19 August (Pupil Free Day) Monday 9th September (Pupil Free Day)

Term 4: Friday 8 November (Pupil Free Day)

Please note, pupil free days are subject to change. Parents will be advised well in advance.

Email: admin@olom.wa.edu.au
Website: http://www.olom.wa.edu.au
Location: 55 Hudson Avenue, Girrawheen WA 6064, Australia
Phone: (08) 9207 7677
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ourladyofmercygirrawheen/